[0:05] Good afternoon, everybody. I
[0:06] d
[0:08] like to welcome everyone to the
[0:10] AUGUST 25th, 2026 meeting of
[0:11] the King County Council. I
[0:11] m
[0:12] George Baron, I
[0:13] m vice chair of
[0:13] the council, but I
[0:14] ll be acting
[0:15] as chair today. We
[0:16] re joined by
[0:18] my colleagues, and this meeting
[0:20] is called to order. Uh, before
[0:21] we begin, please join me in
[0:22] acknowledging that we
[0:22] re on the
[0:24] traditional lands of the Puget
[0:25] Salish peoples, past and
[0:26] present. We thank these
[0:28] caretakers of this land who
[0:29] have lived here and continue to
[0:29] live here since time
[0:30] immemorial, bringing their
[0:32] cultural ways of life and
[0:34] greatly enriching our
[0:35] communities with that. Clerk
[0:36] Foss, would you please call the
[0:38] roll?
[0:40] Thank you. Chair. Baron
[0:42] Councilmember Balducci
[0:44] Councilmember Dembowski.
[0:44] Here.
[0:47] Council member Dunn.
[0:48] Councilmember Fain.
[0:51] Councilmember Lewis. Here.
[0:54] Council member Mosqueda. Here.
[0:56] Councilmember Perry
[0:57] Councilmember von Reichbauer.
[0:58] Here.
[0:59] Chair.
[1:01] Barton here.
[1:03] Councilmember Dunn here.
[1:05] Thank you very much. We have a
[1:07] quorum of the Council. Next,
[1:09] please join us in the Pledge of
[1:11] Allegiance led by Councilmember
[1:13] Fain.
[1:13] Please stand if you
[1:16] re able. I
[1:20] pledge allegiance to the flag
[1:22] in America. As you republic,
[1:25] for which stands one nation
[1:28] under GOD, indivisible, with
[1:33] liberty and justice for all.
[1:35] Thank you very much. Vice Chair
[1:36] Dunn. MAY I please have a
[1:37] motion to approve the minutes
[1:39] of the AUGUST 18th, 2026
[1:40] Council meeting? Move. Approval
[1:41] of the AUGUST.
[1:42] 18th minutes.
[1:43] Thank you very much. The motion
[1:46] is before us. Any questions?
[1:47] Comments regarding the minutes.
[1:49] Seeing none. All those in
[1:51] favor, please say aye. Aye. Any
[1:53] opposed? Say nay. The minutes
[1:55] are approved. Clerk. Are there
[1:56] any additions to the Council
[1:57] agenda?
[1:58] I do not have any additions to
[1:59] the agenda, sir.
[2:01] Thank you very much. We will
[2:02] now turn to the reading of
[2:04] items into the record and the
[2:06] hearing of public comment. Uh,
[2:07] Vice Chair Dunn, will you move
[2:10] to suspend the rules to hold an
[2:11] advertised public hearing on
[2:14] item seven? Proposed ordinance
[2:16] 2022 0297.
[2:17] Move to suspend the rules to
[2:18] hold an advertised public
[2:20] hearing on item seven, which is
[2:22] proposed. Ordinance 2022 0297.
[2:24] Thank you. The motion is before
[2:26] us. Any questions or comments
[2:27] on that? All right. All those
[2:29] in favor, please say aye. Aye.
[2:30] Any opposed? Say nay. The
[2:33] motion carries. Uh, item seven
[2:34] will remain in the Local
[2:35] Services and Land Use Committee
[2:36] until the committee has taken
[2:37] action. It will then be placed
[2:39] on the council agenda for
[2:41] action. Clerk, will you please
[2:43] read the items into the record?
[2:45] Thank you. Item number seven is
[2:47] proposed. Ordinance number 2022
[2:50] 0297 determining the King
[2:50] County Fire Protection.
[2:52] District number 24 is inactive
[2:54] under state law, and it is in
[2:56] the public interest to dissolve
[2:57] King County Fire. Fire
[2:59] Protection District Number 24.
[3:01] Item eight is proposed. Motion
[3:04] number 2026 0178, confirming
[3:04] the executive
[3:06] s appointment of
[3:07] Susan Lewis Moore, who resides
[3:09] in Council District six to the
[3:10] Washington State Major League
[3:11] Baseball stadium. Public
[3:13] facilities. District board of
[3:15] directors. Item number nine is
[3:18] proposed. Motion 2026 0208,
[3:18] confirming the executive
[3:19] s
[3:20] reappointment of young Sang
[3:23] Song, who resides in Council
[3:24] District nine, to the King
[3:26] County Priority Hire Advisory
[3:27] Committee representing local
[3:30] business organizations. Item
[3:32] ten is proposed. Motion 2026
[3:33] 0210, confirming the
[3:34] executive
[3:35] s reappointment of
[3:37] Drew Gibson, who resides in
[3:38] Council District nine to the
[3:39] King County Priority Hire
[3:42] Advisory Committee. Item 11 is
[3:45] proposed. Motion 2026 0211,
[3:46] confirming the executive
[3:46] s
[3:48] reappointment of Dave Johnson,
[3:49] who resides in Council District
[3:51] three, to the Priority Hire
[3:53] District Committee representing
[3:54] contractors.
[3:56] Thank you very much. The
[3:58] council will now take public
[3:59] comment on those ordinances and
[4:00] motions on today
[4:01] s agenda for
[4:02] action, along with any topic
[4:04] directly related to county
[4:05] business. That is because it
[4:05] s
[4:06] the fourth Tuesday of the
[4:07] month. Listening to the public
[4:09] and taking into consideration
[4:09] the public
[4:10] s thoughts is an
[4:11] important part of our process,
[4:11] and it
[4:13] s one that enhances our
[4:15] deliberations in order to allow
[4:16] everyone equal time to comment,
[4:17] I would like to set the
[4:18] following ground rules. Please
[4:19] limit comments to two minutes.
[4:20] Remain seated until time for
[4:22] your public comment, and do not
[4:23] make audible noise during the
[4:24] meeting. This is also a
[4:25] reminder that public comment
[4:26] MAY not be used for the purpose
[4:28] of assisting a campaign for
[4:29] election of any person to any
[4:30] office, or for the promotion
[4:33] of, or opposition to any ballot
[4:35] proposition. In addition, per
[4:36] Council Rule ten, disruptive
[4:38] behavior can or MAY lead to the
[4:39] commenter being asked to leave
[4:41] the meeting. Disruptive
[4:41] behavior includes the
[4:42] following. Among other
[4:44] considerations. Standing rather
[4:45] than remaining seated except
[4:46] when entering or leaving the
[4:47] chambers, or when providing
[4:48] comment at the podium after
[4:50] being called on to speak.
[4:51] Speaking from the audience
[4:52] without being recognized to
[4:53] provide comment. Making audible
[4:55] noises in the audience. Beyond
[4:56] speaking. Holding signs that
[4:58] obstruct the free passage of
[4:59] view or view of others
[5:00] attending the meeting. The use
[5:03] of bullhorns or noisemakers,
[5:05] uh, for online comment, please,
[5:07] please press star nine on the
[5:08] phone or click the raise hand
[5:09] icon on the zoom toolbar,
[5:10] located at the bottom of the
[5:12] screen to notify the clerk. The
[5:14] clerk will call the names or
[5:15] the last three digits of the
[5:16] phone numbers in order, and
[5:18] will then unmute each line at
[5:20] the end of each comment. The
[5:21] clerk will lower our hands with
[5:23] that. Clerk. Mueller, would you
[5:24] please begin calling the names
[5:25] here in person, followed by
[5:27] those hands raised online for
[5:28] public comment?
[5:28] Thank you. Chair. The first
[5:30] name on the list is Kevin
[5:38] Altmire.
[5:40] Chair. Today we stand here,
[5:43] folks, witnessing an atrocity.
[5:48] Last year, AUGUST 25th, 20 26
[5:51] 2025. Two men sitting up there
[5:53] were involved in one of the
[5:54] worst things you could have
[5:55] done. And I
[5:56] m accusing these
[5:58] two men of atrocities. Number
[6:02] one, Reagan, Don sends a letter
[6:07] to the Seattle Times feeding
[6:10] them propaganda. Rob Dembowski
[6:13] sends propaganda. Reagan. Don,
[6:15] you remember that article that
[6:17] came out OCTOBER the 31st? And
[6:18] he said that somebody at dch
[6:21] needs to be fired. It was Kelly
[6:22] Rider. You know why? Because he
[6:24] had his staff send an email,
[6:26] and I have it to the Seattle
[6:28] Times and said, because Kelly
[6:31] Rider said dch had no no loss
[6:34] and said Magee had no ethic
[6:35] violation and they went through
[6:38] three investigations. Then they
[6:40] made a legislative record by
[6:42] basically him passing this
[6:44] ordinance called ordinance
[6:46] 19978. And it
[6:48] s all de facto.
[6:50] This guy standing there got a
[6:52] writer by the name of Lula
[6:53] Ramadan. Seattle Times, she
[6:55] said, hey, did you notice that
[6:58] Thomas Birmingham Barrington,
[6:58] who
[7:00] s the director of ethics,
[7:01] says there was no ethics
[7:02] violation? You know what he
[7:04] did? He wrote and said, I
[7:04] ve
[7:06] been trying for three years to
[7:08] open up a inspector general.
[7:08] It
[7:10] s in my article. So if you
[7:11] go to King County Oversight
[7:15] files, dot com, you can read
[7:17] about these guys. So what
[7:17] you
[7:20] re witnessing are criminals
[7:22] who need to be charged a
[7:23] federal government arbitrator
[7:25] needs to come in here and take
[7:26] over the King County
[7:28] government, because this is an
[7:30] atrocity. What you have here.
[7:32] MR. Zimmerman, you can
[7:33] t
[7:35] applaud. Okay, that
[7:35] s your
[7:36] first warning.
[7:39] Now, they MAY sit there. Guess
[7:42] what? And I sent out today I
[7:42] see Sarah Perry
[7:43] s not here. And
[7:45] I see Claudia because they
[7:45] re
[7:47] probably shocked of all of your
[7:49] emails I got. I have over
[7:51] 60,000 emails through public
[7:52] disclosure requests.
[7:55] MR. Alzheimer, thank you. Next
[7:55] speaker.
[7:57] The next name on the list is
[7:59] Alex Zimmerman.
[8:01] Thank you very much.
[8:02] I my you.
[8:03] Mind? I
[8:05] m Alex Zimmerman. I
[8:06] ever never clapping. You know
[8:09] what this means for me Nazi
[8:11] Gestapo principle come to
[8:13] absurd. Yeah okay. My number my
[8:14] name Alex Zimmerman. I
[8:14] m
[8:17] PRESIDENT Of Stand-Up America.
[8:19] I open right now. Our of this
[8:23] case about Ponzi schemes are on
[8:27] transit for $35 billion. It
[8:27] s a
[8:29] serious problem that we have
[8:31] right now. I demand that is you
[8:33] counsel will be support this
[8:36] $35 billion. And talking about
[8:38] the Spanish scam for ten years
[8:41] from beginning. So $35 billion,
[8:43] what they steal from us now?
[8:43] It
[8:44] s never happened before in
[8:46] American history. You need to
[8:47] in very important because we
[8:49] have a leader in this business
[8:51] council. Banducci you know what
[8:53] is mean by definition. She
[8:55] totally destroyed Bellevue
[8:58] because first train, what has
[9:00] come from this Ponzi scheme is
[9:02] come to Bellevue. What is cost
[9:05] us $1,000,000,000 billion in
[9:07] train go for one year right
[9:09] now. Totally empty. Totally
[9:11] empty. You know what is mean,
[9:13] Bellevue. This very rich place
[9:15] right now on from more rich
[9:16] city in America. People drive
[9:19] Mercedes Beemer car for
[9:22] $100,000. Nobody will be uses.
[9:24] Idiotic situation. I talking
[9:26] about this for many years. But
[9:27] what you don
[9:28] t do is this ship
[9:29] possibly be in jail. Trump
[9:31] absolutely right. It
[9:31] s time
[9:35] right now put Democrat Keefe
[9:38] and Bandito Mafia to jail. If
[9:39] we need to start something
[9:41] doing right now. So this is my
[9:43] first complaint. What they have
[9:45] right now in auditor office.
[9:48] Second complaint will be about
[9:49] King Country House, an
[9:52] authority who spent $100
[9:54] million for thousands and
[9:56] thousands of legal immigrants
[9:57] who violate Trump
[9:58] s executive
[10:00] order. Viva Trump, Viva new
[10:02] American Revolution stand up
[10:06] slap and happy cow. Now.
[10:08] The next name on the list is
[10:12] Chris Maniots.
[10:14] Yeah, yeah.
[10:15] 3:00 okay, I
[10:16] m not going to be
[10:18] as loud as these guys. I have a
[10:20] safety issue at King County
[10:22] Airport I want to talk about.
[10:22] There
[10:24] s hot fueling happening
[10:26] since 2025. That
[10:27] s against the
[10:29] airport. Supplemental rules and
[10:30] regulation. It
[10:31] s not in
[10:33] accordance with faa policy.
[10:33] That
[10:36] s a public safety issue.
[10:36] And it
[10:38] s up to you guys to
[10:41] enforce that, not to encourage
[10:43] vendors to do it or encourage
[10:45] folks. But my problem is
[10:46] there
[10:48] s actually fueling with
[10:50] passengers on board. You have
[10:52] an observer that you have hired
[10:55] who is not on the on the tarmac
[10:57] when the pipes are connected.
[10:59] So therefore cannot say whether
[11:00] there
[11:01] s hot fueling happening
[11:04] or not. This is a safety issue.
[11:07] Yes. These are Ice flights. But
[11:09] you know, these people are
[11:11] shackled. They cannot run.
[11:12] They
[11:13] re on the actual airplane
[11:14] when it
[11:18] s happening. For all
[11:21] that is holy, do something
[11:25] about that. Encouraging a
[11:28] contractor to follow a rule is
[11:32] not enough. That
[11:34] s it.
[11:35] Thank you.
[11:36] The next name on the list is
[11:43] Dan Sakuma.
[11:46] Good afternoon. My name is
[11:48] Stanley Sakuma. I come
[11:49] representing Soohoo for
[11:50] solidarity. I
[11:51] m the national
[11:52] co-chair. Co-Chair of that
[11:54] organization, as well as the
[11:56] Japanese American Citizens
[11:56] League. I
[11:58] m a past PRESIDENT
[11:59] And current vice PRESIDENT For
[12:01] civil rights. With that
[12:03] organization, both
[12:04] organizations have been in
[12:05] support of Larry
[12:06] s intentions.
[12:08] Attempts to shut down the
[12:10] Northwest Detention Center and
[12:12] specifically for this group to
[12:15] stop the deportation flights in
[12:16] and out of the King County
[12:18] International Airport. I
[12:18] ve
[12:19] been working with a lot of
[12:21] assistance to observe and
[12:23] monitor flights for the last
[12:25] three years, and I can tell you
[12:28] that it is very disturbing to
[12:29] sit there and watch people
[12:32] being boarded on and off
[12:34] planes, occasionally being
[12:38] taken to the ground. It reminds
[12:41] us from the Japanese American
[12:41] community
[12:45] s history of 1942,
[12:48] when our community, my mother
[12:50] was taken from Shelton. No
[12:53] charges, no evidence, no due
[12:56] process, no hearings, no way to
[12:59] appeal. Uh, she was taken away
[13:01] and put on a train. Did not
[13:03] know where she was going. Did
[13:04] not know how long she would be
[13:07] gone. I did not know what the
[13:11] future would hold right now.
[13:12] That is happening again. We
[13:13] re
[13:15] using planes instead of trains,
[13:18] but the same process has been
[13:19] going on and it
[13:20] s time for this
[13:22] county to stop it. Thank you.
[13:23] Thank you.
[13:25] The next name on the list is
[13:33] Benjamin Silberman.
[13:35] Hi, my name is Ben. I
[13:35] m with
[13:37] Southend, indivisible. I
[13:38] m
[13:41] calling on the council to start
[13:42] from the premise that
[13:44] immigrants are human beings
[13:48] from which it flows, obviously,
[13:49] that they should not be held in
[13:51] shackles on airplanes that
[13:52] could explode due to hot
[13:54] fueling, that they should not
[13:58] be unobserved when crimes are
[13:59] taking place that could
[14:00] endanger them. There should be
[14:04] somebody watching to ensure the
[14:05] rules are being followed, or
[14:06] document when they
[14:06] re not at
[14:09] all times. When deportation
[14:11] flights or flights into the
[14:13] Tacoma Detention Center from uh
[14:18] King County Airport are, uh,
[14:19] respectively, taking off or
[14:23] landing, um, this is, uh, you
[14:27] know, useless. Of course, if
[14:29] the rules are not enforced and
[14:30] the.
[14:30] I
[14:31] m sorry, can we pause the,
[14:33] uh, MR. Alzheimer, you can
[14:33] t be
[14:34] standing unless you
[14:35] re
[14:36] providing public comment. Okay.
[14:37] Oh, I thought we could take
[14:37] pictures.
[14:39] You can take pictures. You just
[14:39] can
[14:40] t be standing.
[14:41] Thank you. You know, I am
[14:42] meeting.
[14:43] I need you to sit down. Thank
[14:45] you. Sir, thank.
[14:46] You, thank you.
[14:48] Thank you. Go ahead.
[14:50] So I understand that the
[14:52] federal government could, uh,
[14:54] sue to strike down any rules.
[14:55] They don
[14:56] t like that could.
[14:58] That will take time. And in the
[15:01] time that you are enforcing the
[15:04] rules, people will be safer.
[15:07] That is worth it. The, uh, the
[15:09] fact that you would be standing
[15:10] against the federal
[15:11] government
[15:12] s cruelty is worth
[15:16] it. There should be no fear of
[15:17] the federal government doing
[15:21] something legal against basic
[15:23] treatment of human beings. As
[15:25] human beings. Thank you.
[15:27] Thank you. The next name on the
[15:38] list is Greg Carlucci.
[15:41] Hi. My name is Greg Carlucci,
[15:41] and I
[15:43] m a community member
[15:44] here. I live in Seattle. I
[15:45] m
[15:47] very concerned also about the,
[15:50] um, ice, uh, flights in and out
[15:54] of King County Airport. Um,
[15:56] also specifically about the
[16:00] lack of, um, a observer for
[16:00] what
[16:02] s happening and who
[16:03] s on
[16:08] the flights. Um, so La
[16:10] Resistencia has been doing a
[16:11] lot of the observing, but King
[16:13] County should hire a person,
[16:15] and I think they have hired
[16:17] somebody. But, um, that person
[16:19] has to be on the tarmac to do
[16:21] their job. And if they
[16:22] re not,
[16:23] then we don
[16:24] t know exactly what
[16:26] is happening with these people.
[16:29] And so we do want to just have
[16:33] you all, uh, have King County,
[16:36] um, follow the laws. Thank you.
[16:38] Thank you.
[16:39] The next name on the list is
[16:53] Joe Harrington.
[16:55] Hello. My name is Joe
[16:56] Harrington. Uh, I
[16:56] m with
[16:58] Southeast Seattle, indivisible.
[17:01] Um, and we are. I
[17:01] m
[17:02] specifically speaking to the
[17:05] use of chains on ice flights.
[17:08] Um, Ice has agreed to follow
[17:11] faa rules on this, uh, faa
[17:12] rules are very clear that the
[17:14] planes must be, uh, capable of
[17:18] being evacuated within 90s. Uh,
[17:19] flight attendants know this.
[17:22] Pilots know this, um, the
[17:23] people on these flights are
[17:26] being shackled. They have their
[17:29] hands shackled to their waists.
[17:30] Their feet are shackled
[17:32] together, and those are
[17:33] shackled together. They walk
[17:35] hunched. Uh, they cannot walk
[17:38] quickly. If on a flight, the
[17:40] oxygen mask drops from above,
[17:41] they can
[17:42] t reach up and put
[17:44] that on themselves. Um, the
[17:47] ratio of guards to, uh, people
[17:49] detained on the flights is one
[17:52] for two. So the risk to the Ice
[17:55] agents on the flights, is it
[17:57] approaches zero. Um, there is
[17:58] no point in this except
[18:01] cruelty. Uh, we are asking the
[18:05] council to insist that the faa
[18:07] follow its own rules, that ice
[18:09] follow the rules that they have
[18:11] adopted. And, uh, we would
[18:13] really appreciate seeing a lot
[18:18] more fight. There are, uh, we
[18:19] understand that you can
[18:20] t kick
[18:21] ice out of King County
[18:22] s
[18:25] airport, but we can make a
[18:27] much, much bigger noise than we
[18:29] have been making to insist that
[18:32] they not use unnecessary
[18:34] cruelty. Thank you.
[18:35] Thank you.
[18:35] I
[18:36] m going to start calling
[18:38] three names at a time. The next
[18:40] up is Angela Depp, followed by
[18:41] Cynthia o
[18:42] Toole and Rebecca
[18:46] Kate.
[18:48] Thank you for your time today.
[18:50] My name is Angela Depp. I live
[18:51] in Columbia City. I
[18:52] m horrified
[18:54] by what is happening here in
[18:56] Seattle and across the country.
[19:00] Ice is unlawfully taking our
[19:02] friends, our neighbors and
[19:04] family members. Isis violent
[19:05] and has shot and killed
[19:07] individuals across the country.
[19:09] Isis violating individual human
[19:12] and civil rights. We fear for
[19:14] their safety. I volunteer
[19:16] weekly to witness deportation
[19:17] flights at King County
[19:19] International Airport. We are
[19:21] concerned because detainees are
[19:25] not safe. We also monitor and
[19:27] track isis activity because Ice
[19:30] does not share information. We
[19:32] need your help to ensure that
[19:33] our flight witnessing team has
[19:36] clear access to all detainees,
[19:38] that we can monitor how they
[19:40] are being treated, and track
[19:42] who is being detained. Ice
[19:45] parks their buses in a way that
[19:48] obstructs our camera view. We
[19:49] need your help to ensure that
[19:51] Ice parks their buses in a way
[19:53] that gives us full visibility
[19:56] to all Ice activity during
[19:58] deportation flights. We also
[19:59] ask for assistance from King
[20:01] County International Airport
[20:03] Operations team to ensure that
[20:06] airport cameras are adjusted to
[20:08] maximize our visibility for
[20:11] detainees, to give us clear and
[20:13] unobstructed view of what is
[20:15] going on during deportation
[20:17] flights. If operation could
[20:19] consult with us to understand
[20:20] the challenges we are having,
[20:22] we think the camera view can be
[20:25] adjusted for better visibility.
[20:30] Thank you for your time today.
[20:31] Hello, my name is Cynthia
[20:31] o
[20:32] Toole. I
[20:33] m a resident of King
[20:35] County, live in South Seattle.
[20:37] I have been observing in
[20:39] immigration courts. I have been
[20:41] to the observation room that is
[20:43] at the King County Airport, and
[20:46] I know that many of us are very
[20:48] aware of the horrors that are
[20:50] going on under the Trump
[20:51] administration. And Stephen
[20:51] Miller
[20:53] s mass deportation
[20:53] program, and we don
[20:54] t need to
[20:56] elaborate on that. What is
[20:58] deeply upsetting is that King
[21:01] County is not doing as much as
[21:06] we can to resist these things.
[21:08] There are rules and regulations
[21:10] that are not being adequately
[21:11] followed there. Have these
[21:13] things have been documented by
[21:14] the center for Human Rights at
[21:16] the University of Washington by
[21:18] La Resistencia, by Sudo.
[21:20] Everybody is aware more people
[21:22] need to be aware. How can we
[21:23] help more people? Be aware.
[21:27] Follow your regulations, get
[21:29] that observer on the tarmac for
[21:31] every single deportation flight.
[21:34] So we know how many people are
[21:36] coming on and off the planes in
[21:37] shackles. We need to know how
[21:39] many people are injured in this
[21:41] process. We need to know if
[21:42] there is hot fueling going on.
[21:44] We need to know these things.
[21:45] They need to be part of the
[21:48] public record. We as citizens
[21:50] of this county deserve this
[21:52] information because these
[21:54] things are happening to people
[21:56] that we care about. I know that
[22:00] a lot of you care about this
[22:02] issue, and so we need to work
[22:04] together to make sure the rules
[22:06] and regulations are followed as
[22:11] much as possible. Thank you.
[22:13] Good afternoon. Rebecca. Kate.
[22:15] Um, King County resident, I
[22:15] d
[22:16] like to add my voice to the
[22:18] concerns around this topic of
[22:20] hot fueling on these flight
[22:24] deportations. Um, as as as
[22:27] already reiterated it, it it
[22:29] seems that the King County
[22:30] Airport is not following its
[22:33] own rules and regulations, and
[22:36] faa policy. Um, this seems like
[22:39] a tremendous safety concern for
[22:41] this vulnerable population. Of
[22:43] shackled immigrants on these
[22:46] planes where they MAY be, um,
[22:49] uh, open to, um, tremendous
[22:51] harm if something should happen
[22:54] and, um, to our knowledge, no
[22:56] long standing disciplinary
[22:57] measures have ever been taken
[23:00] to stop the contractors from
[23:01] violating local policy and
[23:03] putting people in danger. So I
[23:05] think if we were going to say
[23:07] that we support immigrants, we
[23:09] need to ensure their safety.
[23:11] This should be the highest
[23:12] priority. If we were going to
[23:15] have these deportation flights,
[23:15] which I
[23:16] m not for, I
[23:17] m not in
[23:19] favor of in any way. But if
[23:19] we
[23:20] re going to be having these,
[23:22] the safety of this very
[23:24] vulnerable population needs to
[23:26] be assured. Thank you.
[23:28] The next name on the list is
[23:30] Laura Cooley, followed by Kathy
[23:34] Cryan and Brian Dang.
[23:35] Thank you very much. My name is
[23:37] Laura Cooley. I live in
[23:38] Northeast Seattle. I
[23:38] m a former
[23:42] United Nations and uw employee,
[23:43] and the reason I
[23:44] m here is to
[23:45] add my voice to the concerns
[23:47] that are being raised here,
[23:49] both on the humanitarian front,
[23:52] the safety front, etc. But I
[23:53] also want to make people aware,
[23:54] a different angle that people
[23:55] MAY not have thought about. I
[23:55] m
[23:56] not sure if people are aware
[23:58] that Geo Group has more than
[24:00] doubled its profit over the
[24:00] last year. We
[24:02] re part of that.
[24:03] Specifically, Geo Group has
[24:04] said that it grew its net
[24:06] income in the first quarter of
[24:10] the year from by 96% to 38.3
[24:12] million, from only 19.5 million
[24:14] in the same period. So revenues
[24:18] have increased by 16% to 705
[24:21] million, from 606 million. Do
[24:22] we really want to be part of
[24:23] that? I don
[24:23] t think so,
[24:24] especially when they
[24:25] re not
[24:27] enforcing the rules and
[24:28] regulations of safety concerns
[24:29] that they
[24:30] re supposed to be. So
[24:31] everyone here in the room will
[24:31] be speaking, I
[24:32] m sure, to
[24:33] various angles of this. I just
[24:35] think, please show some
[24:37] gumption. This is this is this
[24:43] is not who we are. Thank you.
[24:44] Hello, I
[24:46] m Kathy Crayon. Um,
[24:47] I
[24:48] m with South Seattle,
[24:51] indivisible and with Southeast
[24:53] Seattle, Indivisible and with.
[24:53] I
[24:55] m a volunteer at the Riverton
[24:57] Church in a legal clinic that
[24:59] assists immigrants. And I also
[25:02] volunteer at Casa Latina. Um,
[25:04] with all the horrors being
[25:06] perpetrated against immigrants
[25:09] right here in King County. And
[25:12] throughout this country. Um,
[25:15] many of us feel powerless. It
[25:16] s
[25:16] very we
[25:17] re overwhelmed. It
[25:18] s
[25:18] it
[25:18] s we don
[25:19] t want it to
[25:20] happen. We don
[25:20] t know what to
[25:23] do. But in this case, you have
[25:25] the power to do something. And
[25:28] I think if King County takes a
[25:32] strong stance of, um, enforcing
[25:33] the regulations, the safety
[25:36] regulations at the airport and
[25:39] ensuring that your own rules or
[25:41] our own rules are followed,
[25:45] that will be, um, that will be
[25:46] something you have the power
[25:47] here, and I
[25:48] m asking you to
[25:59] take it. Thank you.
[26:01] Good afternoon. Uh, city
[26:04] council. My name is Brian Dang.
[26:04] I
[26:05] m based in council mosquito
[26:06] s
[26:07] district. I
[26:08] m here to urge King
[26:10] County, uh, King County Council
[26:13] to enforce its rules at the
[26:15] King County Airport. And not
[26:17] just encourage them to follow
[26:19] safety protocols, as we
[26:20] re just
[26:21] allowing Ice to deport
[26:25] Americans unchallenged. First,
[26:26] we should be ashamed that we
[26:27] re
[26:28] even allowing these flights to
[26:30] happen. That
[26:32] s inhumane. We
[26:32] re
[26:35] sending people to countries
[26:35] they
[26:37] ve never been to before,
[26:39] that they are separated from
[26:41] their families. We
[26:42] re not doing
[26:44] enough to stop it and get in
[26:47] their way. King County has
[26:49] finally hired someone in a
[26:50] position to observe the flights
[26:52] at King County Airport.
[26:53] However, this role is
[26:54] incomplete. They
[26:55] re not
[26:56] exclusively monitoring Ice
[26:57] flights, and they
[26:58] re not on the
[26:59] tarmac for the entirety of the
[27:03] time. King County must enforce
[27:04] that cameras are not obstructed
[27:05] from view of the observer
[27:06] s
[27:09] view. We need all Americans
[27:11] accounted for, and I keep using
[27:13] this word Americans because
[27:14] that
[27:17] s who they are. Please
[27:20] ensure that hot feeling does
[27:25] not occur and that it doesn
[27:25] t
[27:28] put people in positions of
[27:31] danger where they are already
[27:34] shackled. Again, please enforce
[27:38] the existing safety protocols
[27:40] and get in the way of all these
[27:41] Ice flights. Thank you for your
[27:42] time.
[27:44] The next name on the list is
[27:47] Guadalupe Gonzalez, followed by
[27:49] Filemon Tapia and Dalila
[27:51] Scholls. Our apologies. Delia
[27:54] Shoals.
[27:55] Uh. Hello everyone. My name is
[27:57] Guadalupe Gonzalez, King County
[27:59] resident and a member of La
[28:00] Resistencia. I
[28:01] ve been working
[28:02] with lr for the past couple of
[28:04] years to really document what
[28:04] s
[28:05] been going on at the airport
[28:07] and try to contact both airport
[28:09] authorities and the King County
[28:11] Executive about the issues, to
[28:12] see if any of them could be
[28:14] resolved during these last
[28:16] couple of years. Most of last
[28:17] year, we were just completely
[28:18] ignored. We often wouldn
[28:18] t get
[28:20] responses from the people in
[28:21] leadership positions and it
[28:22] felt like no one was listening.
[28:23] Listening to what we were
[28:25] reporting, which included
[28:26] examples of hot fueling and
[28:27] other issues we were running
[28:28] into when carrying out
[28:30] observations. Uh, really at the
[28:31] beginning of this years, when
[28:32] we finally started hearing back
[28:33] from the county, and they got
[28:34] to a point where we were told
[28:36] that once the new position was
[28:38] hired, then that position could
[28:39] document any violations of the
[28:40] rules, and actions could be
[28:42] taken. However, it seems that
[28:43] since this position has been
[28:44] instituted, things have
[28:44] changed. We
[28:45] re now being told
[28:45] that they
[28:46] re going to document
[28:48] violations of the rules. But
[28:50] rather than punishing isis
[28:51] contractors which break safety
[28:53] procedures, something which the
[28:53] airport
[28:54] s supplemental rules
[28:55] and regulations include, it
[28:57] states punishments and how
[28:57] they
[28:58] re going to increase
[28:59] depending on like subsequent
[29:00] violations, rather than usage
[29:02] utilizing that which is in the
[29:03] rules, they
[29:03] re instead going to,
[29:05] quote unquote, encourage
[29:06] contractors on a voluntary
[29:09] basis to follow suit rules. To
[29:10] me personally, this feels like
[29:12] very cowardly behavior from
[29:13] those in power, and it feels
[29:15] like there are no points. Often
[29:15] we
[29:16] ve talked to the county,
[29:17] though, often say, you know,
[29:18] our rules at the airport for
[29:20] Ice flights are above what most
[29:21] of the us is doing. You know,
[29:22] compared to many other
[29:23] airports. We
[29:23] re going we
[29:24] re
[29:25] leading ahead. These rules
[29:25] don
[29:25] t matter if they
[29:26] re not
[29:26] being enforced. It
[29:27] s just that
[29:28] words on paper. So I
[29:28] m going to
[29:29] reiterate what a lot of folks
[29:30] have talked about today, which
[29:32] is that we need to enforce
[29:34] these safety procedures. I
[29:35] understand that removing ice
[29:35] from King County
[29:36] s airport is a
[29:38] whole different conversation,
[29:39] but if this county is going to
[29:40] support migrants, as it states
[29:42] within its many ordinances, its
[29:43] many public releases, and
[29:45] everything included, then it
[29:46] needs to actually take actions
[29:47] over what it can control, which
[29:48] is its own airport and the
[29:49] treatment of human beings who
[29:51] have rights within it. Thank
[29:57] you.
[30:00] Good afternoon. Council. I know
[30:01] the King County Council has
[30:03] made many good statements in
[30:04] individual members of the
[30:06] council have been active in the
[30:07] struggle for immigrant justice
[30:08] throughout their lives, which I
[30:10] applaud and respect. But the
[30:12] reality is the Ice is actively
[30:14] and openly operating at the
[30:15] King County Airport, which of
[30:16] course is on King County
[30:17] property with little to no
[30:18] pushback from the King County
[30:19] Council. There
[30:20] s countless
[30:22] amount of human rights
[30:23] atrocities that Ice commits on
[30:25] a daily basis, and usually
[30:25] there
[30:27] s no oversight because
[30:27] they
[30:27] re given the green light
[30:29] by the federal government to
[30:30] act with impunity in the
[30:32] streets of our communities. But
[30:32] we
[30:33] re talking about today is
[30:35] isis actions on King County
[30:36] property and what seems to be
[30:38] county officials refusal to
[30:39] step in and enforce existing
[30:43] rules and regulations. The ice,
[30:44] these ice bites at King County
[30:46] Airport continue to be fueled
[30:47] with the well while the engine
[30:49] is running, in the process
[30:51] known as hot fueling, which,
[30:51] according to the National
[30:53] Transportation Safety Board, is
[30:55] extremely hazardous. Yet this
[30:56] is done right here at the King
[30:59] County Airport. While shackled
[31:01] immigrants are on board. When
[31:03] will aviation contractors like
[31:05] Sky service be sanctioned or
[31:07] stopped from continuous
[31:09] practice? And even when tragedy
[31:11] strikes due to this potentially
[31:13] volatile, explosive practice,
[31:14] will you be able to step in and
[31:15] say you did everything you
[31:19] could to stop it? The Geo
[31:22] Group, the private corporation
[31:23] that operates the Northwest
[31:25] Detention Center, whose bus is
[31:26] detention buses, are used in
[31:29] the facilitation of these Ice
[31:31] flights. Buses are parked in a
[31:32] way that intentionally blocks
[31:35] the cameras on the runway. This
[31:37] is a clear attempt to hide
[31:38] their mistreatment of migrants
[31:41] on the on the on the bus, who
[31:42] are shackled and heard on these
[31:44] ice flights for more detention
[31:46] and eventual deportation. Now,
[31:48] I know the county recently
[31:50] enacted a sanctuary or
[31:52] welcoming policy, but this
[31:54] means very little. If nothing
[31:55] is being done to restrict isis
[31:56] movements on King County
[32:02] property. So in closing, I just
[32:03] want to say the entire council
[32:04] must stay stronger and more
[32:06] decisive actions to challenge,
[32:07] disrupt and ultimately end all
[32:08] Ice activity at King County
[32:18] Airport, Alameda. Thank you.
[32:20] Good afternoon. Thank you for
[32:22] your time. My name is Delia
[32:24] Scholes. I have I
[32:25] m a resident
[32:26] of South Seattle. I
[32:27] m a member
[32:30] of several organizations that
[32:32] work with immigrant justice,
[32:33] and I have been accompanying
[32:36] migrants to court and to ice
[32:39] check ins for the past year.
[32:39] I
[32:42] m certainly aware of the many
[32:44] infections that Ice commits.
[32:48] Um, and I am have my house
[32:50] looks at. I live on Beacon Hill
[32:52] and my house looks at, um, King
[32:55] County Airport. I am
[32:57] increasingly concerned about
[32:59] the humanitarian and safety
[33:00] violations that are occurring
[33:03] from those flights, and I feel
[33:05] complicit in all those that are
[33:08] happening. I am, I think, very
[33:09] highly of this body, and I
[33:11] think that it
[33:13] s encouraging
[33:14] that you are in a position to
[33:16] act and to enforce, rather than
[33:19] encourage, and I hope you will
[33:20] do that and let all of us as
[33:22] citizens feel that we are
[33:24] participating in distancing
[33:26] ourselves from what
[33:26] s
[33:29] happening. Thank you.
[33:31] The next name on the list is
[33:33] Leonard Sklar, followed by cj.
[33:38] And finally Julie Ginger Rich.
[33:40] Um, hello. My name is Leonard
[33:40] Sklar.
[33:40] I
[33:41] m a resident of district two.
[33:42] I
[33:43] m a retired geologist, and
[33:46] this is my first time here. Um,
[33:47] thank you for listening. I
[33:48] m
[33:49] adding my voice to the
[33:51] community concern over the
[33:52] human rights violations taking
[33:55] place in our public airport. I
[33:58] was shocked when I learned some
[33:59] of the facts of what
[33:59] s going
[34:03] on. Uh, apparently, people are
[34:05] being loaded onto planes in
[34:06] shackles because they
[34:07] re
[34:11] categorized as cargo. My
[34:14] ancestors in Germany and in
[34:15] France, my Jewish ancestors
[34:16] were categorized as cargo and
[34:18] were loaded onto transport
[34:21] vehicles. And we said, never
[34:26] again. And in this context that
[34:27] it is happening again and
[34:28] people are being sent to
[34:29] countries where they
[34:30] re like an
[34:32] El Salvador, uh, you know, and
[34:33] the deaths that are happening
[34:37] under Ice detention, um, I
[34:38] think we should all be losing
[34:41] sleep over this. We should all
[34:43] be doing everything in our
[34:47] power to minimize, at the very
[34:48] least, the risk that people are
[34:50] going to die in some fiery
[34:53] explosion because some company
[34:56] wants to cut corners. I mean,
[34:57] you think about this hot
[35:00] fueling. This is to make money,
[35:02] right? They could wait. They
[35:04] could take the time to do it.
[35:06] Right. But they
[35:07] re treating
[35:09] these passengers, these human
[35:12] beings, as cargo. And this is
[35:13] an excuse for them to make
[35:15] money. So anyway, please, I
[35:16] hope you will join me in losing
[35:17] some sleep. And you will do
[35:19] everything we elected you to do
[35:22] to stop this.
[35:27] Thank you. Cj, our rules do not
[35:29] allow for, uh, science at the
[35:30] podium. So I
[35:30] m going to have to
[35:31] ask you to put it down. Thank
[35:33] you.
[35:35] Okay. Um, so I
[35:36] m here also
[35:37] speaking about the lack of
[35:42] safety at the Boeing field. Um,
[35:44] you guys have been just doing
[35:47] performance up here. I have a
[35:48] rising sixth grader who
[35:49] s going
[35:50] to start studying about
[35:51] government, and they
[35:52] re very
[35:54] well aware of the dark times
[35:56] that we are living through and
[35:56] what
[35:57] s going on. And I can
[35:58] t
[36:00] honestly point to you guys and
[36:02] tell them and share with them
[36:04] what you actually do, because I
[36:04] don
[36:07] t see that you do anything
[36:11] except just speak empty words.
[36:11] You
[36:13] ve passed measures that
[36:15] have absolutely no teeth behind
[36:17] them. You all of you lack
[36:20] spines to even speak out
[36:23] against the heinous crimes of
[36:25] human trafficking that is
[36:27] happening here in this county
[36:30] every single day. So it
[36:31] s
[36:33] disgusting. And how am I
[36:35] raising a child in these dark
[36:37] times to tell her and show her?
[36:38] Oh yeah, we
[36:39] ve got government.
[36:39] We
[36:40] ve got government that
[36:42] serves and supports the people,
[36:44] that upholds values of justice.
[36:46] I none of you are an example of
[36:49] that. None of you. So what are
[36:51] you going to tell your
[36:53] grandchildren when they ask you
[36:55] what you did during these dark
[36:57] times? What are you going to
[36:59] tell them? Because you white
[37:00] guys have the most power in the
[37:02] opportunity to do something,
[37:04] and all you do is just pass
[37:06] empty measures without any,
[37:08] any, any spine behind them. So
[37:09] we
[37:09] ve heard about the hop
[37:11] fueling. Do we need to see
[37:13] people actually incinerated on
[37:14] the tarmac before you do
[37:17] something? Just like we see
[37:19] people incinerated in Gaza? Do
[37:22] we need to see that before you
[37:26] actually take action? So before
[37:28] I leave, he who passively
[37:30] accepts evil is as much
[37:31] involved in it as he who helps
[37:33] to perpetrate it. That is from
[37:47] Martin Luther King.
[37:51] Chilly welcome.
[37:51] I
[37:52] ve come.
[37:55] Today as a resident of
[37:57] Southeast. Seattle. From my
[38:00] home, I can see, um, Boeing
[38:02] Field. I can go for a walk and
[38:04] go past King County Airport.
[38:05] And the more that I
[38:05] ve been
[38:07] learning over time through
[38:11] advocates, um, like everybody
[38:11] else, I
[38:13] m appalled. And today
[38:14] I
[38:15] m even more appalled at the
[38:15] things I
[38:17] ve heard. And although
[38:18] I don
[38:19] t like to speak in
[38:21] public, I showed up to give my
[38:24] voice and to support other
[38:25] people who are speaking out.
[38:26] And that
[38:27] s what you put some
[38:30] muscle to it. Um, I had
[38:31] forgotten that we call
[38:33] ourselves a sanctuary city, and
[38:33] I hope y
[38:34] all can find a way to
[38:36] put some muscle to it. Thank
[38:38] you.
[38:39] The next name on the list is
[38:42] John Vito, followed by Suzanne
[38:44] Parenteau. And the final name
[38:46] on our in-person list is Yvette
[38:48] Danish.
[38:49] Hi, John Vito, I
[38:50] m a member of
[38:53] the six District Democrats,
[38:54] and, uh, you know, we
[38:55] re in a
[38:59] situation where, uh, those who
[39:00] are wielding the power of the
[39:03] federal government, uh, do not
[39:06] conform to the laws and
[39:09] violate, uh, the rights of, uh,
[39:13] the the people. Uh, we, uh, as,
[39:18] uh, you know, members of or
[39:22] residents of, King County, uh,
[39:25] have, uh, responsibility for an
[39:25] airport that
[39:28] s, uh, being used
[39:33] to, uh, uh, move people that
[39:39] are being subject to this, uh,
[39:45] extra legal, uh, confinement
[39:50] and, uh. Sometimes torture, uh,
[39:51] and it
[39:53] s, uh, incumbent on us
[39:59] to find ways, uh, to resist,
[40:02] uh, and protect those who are
[40:04] more vulnerable than we are and
[40:08] have, uh, less privilege. Um,
[40:12] as, um, our council members,
[40:14] uh, people here have been
[40:19] asking you to, uh, uh, use
[40:23] enforcement powers. Uh, and I
[40:24] think that
[40:26] s, uh, the minimum I
[40:29] do acknowledge that the county
[40:34] did, uh, uh, remove those, uh,
[40:36] flights from the airport at one
[40:40] point and, uh, federal judges,
[40:44] uh, uh, vacated, uh, that
[40:45] authority. But there
[40:46] s still
[40:48] some authority that, uh, our
[40:49] county should be exercising
[40:56] over these.
[40:56] Hi, I
[40:58] m Suzanne parenteau. I
[40:58] m
[41:01] a resident of King County. Um,
[41:03] I just want to say from a
[41:05] personal perspective,
[41:07] personally, I owe so much to
[41:08] immigrants in this country who,
[41:11] in my privileged background,
[41:13] basically helped to raise me.
[41:15] And I have a lot of really
[41:17] strong feelings about the
[41:19] gratitude that we owe the
[41:22] people that have been in clubs
[41:24] and babysitters and nannies.
[41:25] And I hate to say that, but,
[41:27] you know, we aspire to these
[41:29] things sometimes in business.
[41:30] And when you get right down to
[41:32] it, they can be raising your
[41:34] children for you, you know? So
[41:36] when I from a personal point of
[41:38] view, I have so much gratitude
[41:40] for, for the, the labor that
[41:42] has been given to or to
[41:45] bestowed upon immigrants in
[41:46] this country. And I don
[41:47] t see
[41:50] enough gratitude for what our,
[41:51] our ancestors who were
[41:54] immigrants have built, how much
[41:56] gratitude we owe the black
[41:58] community, how much we owe
[42:00] immigrants. We are on borrowed
[42:02] time. We are on borrowed land.
[42:04] We need to turn our
[42:07] perspectives around and maybe
[42:08] look at the strengths that we
[42:10] have built as a country and
[42:14] give back. Be appreciative and
[42:17] tune into to, uh, actual
[42:18] feelings you might have for
[42:19] people in your lives who are
[42:20] immigrants. It
[42:20] s a very
[42:23] personal thing. Um, when I
[42:24] worked in mental health my
[42:26] whole life and worked with many
[42:28] immigrants and immigrants tend
[42:30] to struggle a lot, and they
[42:31] struggle more these days than
[42:33] they used to, I think. I don
[42:33] t
[42:36] know, but anyway, um, please
[42:37] use the powers that you have
[42:39] through our privilege in this
[42:42] country to to follow the laws
[42:44] and fight for freedom. And
[42:48] thank you for your work.
[42:52] Thank you.
[42:55] I came back.
[42:56] Welcome, Yvette.
[42:57] Thank you. Good afternoon,
[42:59] Council members. At first I
[43:00] want to thank you for money
[43:02] well spent. Uh, this month of
[43:05] AUGUST, I participated and gone
[43:07] to the big day of play, Cedar
[43:09] Arts Fest. And the festival,
[43:10] the Marina Beach Grill off
[43:12] competition, and mostly the
[43:15] festivals on Sunday, which
[43:17] featured as a closing act,
[43:19] Morris Day and a time. It was
[43:20] just wonderful, wonderful,
[43:21] wonderful. That
[43:22] s very money
[43:23] well spent. I really appreciate
[43:25] that. And also in that same
[43:26] note, I
[43:27] m wondering if the
[43:29] office of the Inspector General
[43:31] was created yet regarding
[43:33] misuse of funds, and if so, can
[43:35] we expect to see an update? Um,
[43:37] because that was very
[43:38] disconcerting that how much
[43:41] money was screwed off by
[43:42] people, by, uh, people with no
[43:44] conscience stealing taxpayer
[43:46] money and, uh, using it
[43:48] incorrectly. And then lastly, I
[43:49] have a handout for you
[43:51] regarding, well, kind of sort
[43:53] of good news. Um, it
[43:53] s
[43:54] regarding this program that was
[43:56] started in Philadelphia called
[43:59] the Group Violence Intervention
[44:01] Program, and it
[44:01] s an effort to
[44:03] reduce to redirect youth from
[44:05] lives of violence by providing
[44:07] counseling, therapy, employment
[44:09] and assistance, and help
[44:10] completing high school,
[44:12] enrolling, enrolling in ged
[44:13] programs. And that model is
[44:15] very successful. So I
[44:15] d like to
[44:16] see something like that
[44:17] emulated here now. But also
[44:18] given this information to the
[44:20] Seattle City Council, because
[44:20] I
[44:21] m sorry of hearing about
[44:23] sorry for your loss or it
[44:23] s a
[44:25] sad day, more kids get shot.
[44:26] And many beaches particularly
[44:28] prone evidently to kids running
[44:29] around with guns. So I
[44:29] d like
[44:31] to see something like this. Um,
[44:33] at least think on it. Regarding
[44:34] implementing this in King
[44:36] County. And again, you know, I
[44:37] appreciate the work you guys
[44:38] do.
[44:39] Thank you.
[44:40] Thank you that you can hand
[44:41] that to our clerk and we
[44:42] ll
[44:42] we
[44:43] ll get a copy of it. Thank
[44:46] you so much. Um, do we have
[44:47] folks signed up? I think that
[44:49] was the last person on, uh, in
[44:50] person. Is that right? Right.
[44:52] Can we go to online, please?
[44:54] The first name for online
[44:59] comment is h. Brown.
[45:02] The proposed Petrovsky Park
[45:04] Disc Golf Course project will
[45:06] be harmful to the environment
[45:08] and should be halted. This is a
[45:10] professional opinion based on
[45:12] my Phd in soil management and
[45:14] many years of natural resource
[45:16] stewardship. I authored the
[45:18] book caring for Land Trust
[45:21] Properties for the Land Trust
[45:23] Alliance. If parks cared more
[45:25] about the natural area in
[45:27] Petrovsky Park, they would
[45:29] protect this forest home for
[45:31] animals ranging from black
[45:34] bears to hummingbirds. The
[45:37] county issued a Sepa checklist
[45:39] that has numerous errors, and
[45:41] the project does not comply
[45:43] with King County regulations
[45:45] relating to soil erosion, steep
[45:48] slope hazards, grading and
[45:50] wildlife habitat networks. My
[45:54] first concern is that parks is
[45:56] circumventing the requirements
[45:58] spelled out in a letter from
[45:59] permitting, that lists the
[46:02] actions required. If a project
[46:06] disturbs more than 7000ft, the
[46:09] Northwest Disc Golf Association
[46:11] plan estimated the area to be
[46:19] cleared at 121,807ft. The
[46:21] second issue is the presence of
[46:23] a wildlife habitat network
[46:26] identified in the Critical area
[46:27] Assessment by Counties
[46:30] consulting firm esa. Bears,
[46:32] cougars, coyotes, beavers and
[46:34] otters travel through this
[46:36] park, but the checklist
[46:37] dismissed the importance of the
[46:40] corridor, which is regulated by
[46:42] King County Code. These two
[46:44] issues are just a few of the
[46:45] many problems created by this
[46:46] project.
[46:47] I need you to wrap up, please.
[46:48] My hope is that the council
[46:50] will terminate the project
[46:52] because of its shortcomings. At
[46:54] a minimum, it should comply
[46:55] with all of the regulations
[46:57] detailed in my written remarks.
[46:58] Thank you for your
[46:59] consideration.
[47:01] Thank you.
[47:03] The next name on the list is
[47:06] Caleb Navarre.
[47:08] Hello, my name is Caleb
[47:09] Navarre. Good afternoon,
[47:10] Council members. I
[47:11] m the vice
[47:13] PRESIDENT Of the nonprofit for
[47:14] Northwest Disc Golf
[47:15] Association. I
[47:16] m here to this
[47:18] afternoon to thank the King
[47:19] County Parks for their
[47:19] willingness to be able to
[47:21] partner with us to install a
[47:22] disc golf course at the
[47:25] Petrovsky Park. As a longtime
[47:26] resident of Renton, I
[47:26] ve spent
[47:28] over 35 years using Petrovsky
[47:29] Park from playing baseball as a
[47:32] child to taking my kids as
[47:33] adult to the play area. I
[47:34] deeply appreciate the county
[47:35] s
[47:36] continued investment
[47:38] enhancement of this park. We
[47:39] have been working with King
[47:40] County Parks for on this
[47:42] project for over four years,
[47:43] and grateful for their support
[47:44] and vast majority of the
[47:45] community members who also
[47:48] support this. Um, we, uh, have
[47:51] already, um, spent a lot of
[47:53] time and effort to be able to
[47:54] address the concerns of the
[47:56] community and have gone through
[47:57] all the different regulatory
[47:59] requirements that are necessary
[48:01] to be able to stay within the
[48:03] the bounds of the law and be
[48:04] respectful of our
[48:06] environmental, regulatory and
[48:08] native sites that are important
[48:11] to be able to ensure that we
[48:12] are being respectful and
[48:14] useful. This land and property,
[48:16] um, we are so grateful for this
[48:17] opportunity to be able to
[48:18] partner with the parks and the
[48:20] support of the council, as well
[48:21] as well. We acknowledge that we
[48:24] have a small majority or
[48:26] minority of neighbors who are
[48:28] not supportive of this course,
[48:28] due mainly to their
[48:30] unwillingness to share their
[48:33] space. Um, uh, the park space
[48:35] near their homes. Uh, we want
[48:35] to assure you that we
[48:36] ve been
[48:37] taking all the steps that we
[48:38] can with the King County Parks
[48:39] people to address these
[48:40] concerns. If you
[48:41] d like to hear
[48:42] more factual information about
[48:43] this project, you can visit our
[48:45] Petrovsky Disc Golf Course
[48:46] Project website. Through King
[48:48] County Parks and our website
[48:50] about this course. Thank you so
[48:51] much for your time and your
[48:53] dedicated service, and continue
[48:56] support of King County Parks.
[48:58] The next name on the list is
[49:04] Brandy.
[49:05] I have been an active Fairwood
[49:07] resident for 13 years, where I
[49:08] have served our community as an
[49:10] rn at Valley Medical Center. I
[49:11] have three children in the Kent
[49:12] School District and I
[49:12] m
[49:14] PRESIDENT Of the Park hoa. I
[49:14] m
[49:16] here to express my sincere
[49:17] disappointment and frustration
[49:18] with the process. King County
[49:20] Parks has used to advance an
[49:21] unfavorable disc golf course at
[49:23] Petrovsky Park. In addition to
[49:24] speaking today, I have
[49:25] submitted thorough
[49:26] documentation and evidence of
[49:28] my concerns. We learned about
[49:29] this project. Incidentally, in
[49:31] 2024, despite being the
[49:32] neighboring hoa already
[49:33] identified as a project
[49:35] concern, we immediately met
[49:36] with parks where both Trubisky
[49:38] Park and Woodside Homes
[49:39] expressed substantial
[49:41] opposition. We were repeatedly
[49:41] assured it
[49:42] s early and you
[49:42] ll
[49:43] have a chance to weigh in as
[49:45] stakeholders. Then in MAY, we
[49:46] were blindsided with a
[49:47] finalized design that
[49:48] disregarded every single
[49:50] concern we brought forward at
[49:52] the meetings. No opportunity to
[49:53] weigh in on the design as
[49:54] promised, and the project had
[49:57] expanded from 18 to 27 holes
[49:58] for an even bigger negative
[49:59] footprint. Flying discs will be
[50:01] approximately 50ft from
[50:02] neighboring homes and 20ft from
[50:04] the existing trail. Despite
[50:05] being able to travel hundreds
[50:06] of feet when we requested
[50:08] greater setbacks, project
[50:09] manager Charlie Holbein
[50:10] responded with a factually
[50:12] inaccurate code citation,
[50:13] telling us the course could be
[50:14] just five feet from our
[50:16] property. Lines, as though we
[50:17] should be grateful for what we
[50:19] got. This is just one example
[50:20] of the dismissive disrespect
[50:20] we
[50:22] ve experienced from parks.
[50:23] Rather than being treated as
[50:24] residents who live here, know
[50:26] this park and deserve a
[50:27] meaningful voice, and what
[50:29] happens in our own backyard, I
[50:30] expect more from King County,
[50:31] and this does not reflect the
[50:33] standards King County claims to
[50:35] uphold. We are still waiting on
[50:36] outstanding public records
[50:37] requests from JUNE. I
[50:38] ve
[50:39] reached out to leadership on
[50:40] multiple occasions. Our
[50:41] concerns continued to be sent
[50:43] back to the very people in
[50:44] charge of the project were
[50:46] complaining about, or ignored
[50:48] entirely. We have lost faith in
[50:49] this process, and we are
[50:50] dangerously close to losing
[50:51] faith in King County
[50:51] s ability
[50:52] to hold its own departments
[50:55] accountable. The 740 and
[50:56] growing signatures opposing
[50:57] this project should tell you
[50:59] that this loss of trust extends
[51:00] far beyond me. I
[51:01] m asking you
[51:02] to halt this project and
[51:04] withdraw the current proposal.
[51:05] Listen to the actual community
[51:07] before our park is permanently
[51:08] changed and your Fairwood
[51:10] residents rally against you.
[51:12] Thank you.
[51:14] Next name on the list is Joe
[51:15] Councilor.
[51:17] Hi. Thanks. It
[51:17] s Joe Councilor
[51:20] here for the monthly open mic
[51:22] time. Um, this month I want to
[51:23] address several issues. First
[51:27] off is, um, the situation
[51:29] around, uh, the Seattle Public
[51:30] Libraries. I understand there
[51:30] s
[51:32] a lot of open drug use down
[51:33] there. Um, I
[51:34] ve seen Jonathan
[51:36] Cho videos as well as stuff
[51:38] from Seattle, so you MAY want
[51:39] to send some King County
[51:40] health, public health
[51:42] inspectors over to the Seattle
[51:44] Public Libraries, make sure
[51:44] there
[51:46] s no open drug use, and
[51:48] that the workplace is safe. Um,
[51:49] I just figured I should flag
[51:52] that for your office. Um,
[51:54] especially considering how your
[51:55] audience is so worried about
[51:58] immigration enforcement. Um,
[52:00] gotta keep the public safe. Um,
[52:02] the second thing is moving
[52:04] along. Um, you know, I
[52:04] ve asked
[52:06] you to do this before, and I
[52:07] think this week, with some of
[52:08] you looking forward to a great
[52:09] change of board meeting this
[52:11] Thursday, you need to adopt
[52:11] Sound Transit
[52:12] s public comment
[52:14] rules for King County Council.
[52:15] Alex Merriman should not be
[52:16] allowed to come down there and
[52:18] hurl hate, as he does almost
[52:19] every single week, like it
[52:20] s,
[52:21] uh, like like the King County
[52:22] Council is just punching bag
[52:24] like like like he forgets that
[52:26] behind every council member is
[52:27] a family giving us a family
[52:29] member to a service of Martin
[52:31] Luther King County and Martin
[52:32] Luther King Junior County
[52:35] deserves much better than drugs
[52:36] and libraries. And Zimmerman
[52:36] s
[52:39] hate. And with that, I rest my
[52:40] comments for the month. I want
[52:40] to thank you all for your
[52:42] awesome public service. MAY GOD
[52:43] continue to bless America and
[52:47] protect our troops. Thank you.
[52:49] The next name on the list is
[52:54] James Hutchison.
[52:56] Uh, the Community Partnerships
[52:59] and Grants, or cpg, has a
[53:01] projects webpage dedicated
[53:04] entirely to the Petrovsky Park
[53:06] Disc Golf course. It complains.
[53:08] It claims that 78% support the
[53:10] disc golf project, and survey
[53:12] results indicate strong support
[53:14] among park neighbors. This is
[53:16] based on a 2024 survey that
[53:18] asks if King County Parks were
[53:19] to build a new backcountry
[53:21] style disc golf course at
[53:24] Petrovsky Park. I would. That
[53:24] s
[53:27] it. No map, no design, no
[53:28] picture of what it would look
[53:30] like. What does backcountry
[53:32] mean? Where will it go? Is the
[53:34] park bigger than we thought? We
[53:36] emailed Parks and Rec and
[53:36] Reagan Dunn
[53:37] s office and told
[53:39] them the survey was biased. It
[53:40] targeted disc golfers and had
[53:42] no measures to prevent ballot
[53:44] stuffing. We have evidence
[53:46] shared this across their
[53:49] network. Cpg spent 15 hours
[53:51] conducting their survey. Those
[53:52] 15 hours were spent trying to
[53:54] sell people on the project.
[53:56] Fast forward nearly two years
[53:57] later, that is still the only
[53:59] survey cpg has done for this
[54:02] project. Of the over 400 hours
[54:02] I
[54:04] ve spent defending this
[54:05] project this past week and a
[54:07] half, I spent over 80 going
[54:09] door to door, dropping off per
[54:11] household access codes to an
[54:12] informed survey that provides
[54:14] both sides of the argument. The
[54:15] survey spans eight
[54:16] neighborhoods and consists of
[54:19] responses from over 365
[54:22] households and 455 individuals.
[54:25] The cpg website claims 78%
[54:26] support the disc golf course.
[54:31] We measured 18%. Let me
[54:32] reiterate what this is. You
[54:34] have a project literally weeks
[54:36] away from breaking ground that
[54:38] only has 18% support from the
[54:40] surrounding communities, while
[54:42] the Parks Department claims a
[54:44] supermajority supported. That
[54:44] s
[54:46] a huge, embarrassing difference
[54:49] of 60 percentage points. This
[54:51] should never happen, and it is
[54:54] a scandal when not sure is
[54:56] excluded. Over 80% of votes do
[54:58] not support the course. We have
[54:58] asked Regan
[55:00] s office to step up
[55:00] and do.
[55:01] Something about this. To wrap.
[55:02] Up, let
[55:03] s do the right thing
[55:06] and put a stop to this farce
[55:07] today. Thank you.
[55:09] Thank you very much.
[55:11] Chair Barton. I currently have
[55:13] no further hands raised.
[55:14] Wonderful. Thank you very much.
[55:15] Seeing no further request for
[55:17] public comment, we will close
[55:17] our.
[55:19] Public hearing public comment
[55:21] today. Uh, thank you to
[55:23] everybody who provided public
[55:24] testimony. Uh, we
[55:24] re going to
[55:26] move on with our agenda,
[55:27] colleagues, as a reminder,
[55:27] we
[55:28] re going to item seven. As a
[55:30] reminder, this item will remain
[55:31] in the Local Services and Land
[55:32] Use Committee until the
[55:33] committee has taken action. It
[55:34] will then be placed on the
[55:35] council agenda for action. But
[55:35] I
[55:36] m going to call on
[55:39] Councilmember Fain, uh, to, uh,
[55:43] speak on this on this item.
[55:46] Thank you. Chair. Um, this
[55:48] proposed ordinance would
[55:50] effectively move the King
[55:51] County Fire Protection District
[55:54] number 24 towards dissolution.
[55:57] And last week, this body, uh,
[55:59] confirmed two new commissioners
[56:00] for fire district 24. They
[56:01] re
[56:03] going to be sworn in shortly.
[56:03] Um, I
[56:04] d like to give them an
[56:06] opportunity to be seated and
[56:07] understand the district
[56:07] s
[56:10] current situation. And, uh,
[56:14] weigh in on its future. Um,
[56:17] before we move to dissolve, uh,
[56:19] that body. So for that reason,
[56:19] I
[56:20] m asking that we defer this
[56:22] matter.
[56:23] Thank you very much. I don
[56:23] t
[56:24] think there
[56:25] s any objection to
[56:25] that that I
[56:26] ve heard. So thank
[56:29] you very much. Councilmember
[56:30] Fain. Uh, colleagues, we
[56:30] ll
[56:32] continue with our agenda. Uh,
[56:33] Vice Chair Dunn, will you
[56:35] please move. The consent agenda
[56:36] item eight.
[56:38] Move consent agenda item eight
[56:39] for approval.
[56:41] Thank you very much. That
[56:43] motion is before us. Uh, clerk,
[56:45] would you please call the roll?
[56:47] Thank you. Councilmember
[56:48] Balducci. Councilmember
[56:51] Dembowski.
[56:52] Councilmember Dunn.
[56:54] Aye.
[56:54] Councilmember Fain.
[56:55] I.
[56:58] Councilmember Lewis. I
[56:59] Councilmember Mosqueda.
[57:00] I.
[57:02] Councilmember Perry.
[57:09] Councilmember Reichbauer.
[57:10] Councilmember.
[57:14] Von Reichbauer.
[57:16] I.
[57:17] Chair Baron.
[57:19] I.
[57:22] The vote is seven I zero nose
[57:26] and Councilmember Balducci and
[57:27] Perry excused.
[57:29] Thank you very much. Uh, by our
[57:30] vote, we have adopted proposed
[57:34] motion 2026 0178. Next, we
[57:34] ll
[57:35] move to our reappointment
[57:37] consent agenda items nine
[57:39] through 11. Vice Chair Duncan,
[57:39] would you move the
[57:40] reappointment consent agenda?
[57:41] Items nine through 11.
[57:43] Move the reappointment consent
[57:44] agenda items
[57:45] Nine through 11 for approval.
[57:47] Thank you. Clerk. Would you
[57:47] please call the roll in the
[57:49] consent of the.
[57:50] Councilmember Balducci.
[57:53] Councilmember Dembowski.
[57:54] Councilmember Dunn. I
[57:56] Councilmember Fain. I
[57:58] Councilmember Lewis. I
[57:59] Councilmember Mosqueda I
[58:01] Councilmember Perry.
[58:03] Councilmember von Reichbauer I
[58:04] chair.
[58:06] Pardon. I the vote is seven
[58:09] eyes and Councilmember Balducci
[58:11] and Perry excused.
[58:12] Thank you very much. By our
[58:13] vote we have adopted proposed
[58:22] motions 2026 02080210 and 0211.
[58:22] If there
[58:23] s no objection to
[58:25] publish marked agenda together
[58:26] with any changes made in
[58:26] today
[58:27] s meeting, will stand
[58:28] approved as the first reading,
[58:29] referral and referral of
[58:31] ordinances and motions. Items
[58:33] 12 through 19, as listed. Uh,
[58:35] before we adjourn, I want to
[58:37] give Councilmember Dembowski an
[58:37] opportunity.
[58:39] To say a few words.
[58:39] I
[58:44] ll do the. Well. Oh, thank
[58:46] thank you, MR. Chair. Um, this
[58:47] morning, I think many of us
[58:49] became aware of the passing of
[58:51] a national icon, a personal
[58:54] hero of mine from Sevierville,
[58:56] Tennessee. Dolly Parton, uh,
[58:59] from a young childhood in
[59:00] Renton watching on my dad
[59:01] s
[59:02] nine inch black and white
[59:05] television. I always loved the
[59:08] Dolly Parton show. And her song
[59:09] Coat of Many Colors spoke to
[59:11] me. Um, as someone whose
[59:14] clothes came more often from
[59:15] the Goodwill and Salvation
[59:18] Army. Uh, although sometimes,
[59:20] on a good day, the Kmart. But
[59:23] she rose from poverty, uh, to
[59:25] really an advocate for all of
[59:27] the best of America. She was a
[59:31] champion for lgbtq communities.
[59:35] Um, and, uh, really just lifted
[59:39] people up. Loved her songs. 9
[59:41] to 5, coat of Many Colors.
[59:43] Jolene. Of course. Do I ever
[59:45] cross your mind? And, uh, had
[59:47] the privilege to see her years
[59:49] ago in concert down at Kent at
[59:52] the beautiful show where arena.
[59:54] Uh. And then in our state. She
[59:56] was a great champion for
[59:59] reading. Uh, she founded the
[1:00:01] Imagination Library in
[1:00:02] Tennessee, and it spread around
[1:00:04] the country, providing a
[1:00:06] monthly free book to children.
[1:00:07] Uh, millions of them, because
[1:00:09] she saw their father couldn
[1:00:09] t
[1:00:11] read and all that. That meant
[1:00:12] in his life. Uh, so I
[1:00:13] appreciated that. I appreciate
[1:00:15] the opportunity to just reflect
[1:00:16] here a little bit on the
[1:00:18] passing of this American icon,
[1:00:20] great feminist leader, uh, and
[1:00:22] a great leader for our country.
[1:00:22] And we
[1:00:23] re privileged to have
[1:00:25] been able to spend some time
[1:00:26] with her as a country. And
[1:00:27] thanks for letting me say a few
[1:00:28] words.
[1:00:29] Thank you very much.
[1:00:31] Councilmember Dembowski. Um,
[1:00:32] the chair has received a
[1:00:34] request to adjourn the AUGUST
[1:00:35] 25th, 2026 Council meeting in
[1:00:37] memory of DeShawn Bennett
[1:00:38] Myers, and I
[1:00:38] m going to call on
[1:00:40] council member Fain and then
[1:00:41] later Councilmember Lewis as
[1:00:42] well. Councilmember Fain.
[1:00:44] Thank you so much, chair.
[1:00:44] Uh.
[1:00:46] Today we are joining our.
[1:00:46] Meeting in.
[1:00:49] Memory of Tyshawn.
[1:00:49] R Bennett.
[1:00:51] Myers, who has lost to a tragic
[1:00:54] act of gun violence in SeaTac
[1:00:59] on JULY 27th, 2021. I want to
[1:01:00] recognize not only to Sean, but
[1:01:02] also the large and loving
[1:01:04] family who continues to carry
[1:01:06] his loss. Tyshawn was a father
[1:01:10] of eight, a son, a brother, a
[1:01:12] cousin and a friend. His
[1:01:13] absence has left an
[1:01:16] immeasurable hole in the lives
[1:01:19] of those who loved him. Today
[1:01:19] we honor to Sean
[1:01:20] s life and the
[1:01:22] memories his family continues
[1:01:24] to carry. I especially want to
[1:01:25] recognize the members of his
[1:01:27] family who have joined us here
[1:01:29] today, including his mother,
[1:01:32] Diane Bennett, and his father,
[1:01:35] stepfather, Jamala Myers, and
[1:01:38] thank them both for joining us
[1:01:39] today, as well as other
[1:01:41] members, family members and
[1:01:44] friends. To Sean was loved. He
[1:01:47] was needed, and his life
[1:01:48] mattered. I hope this moment
[1:01:50] makes clear to his family that
[1:01:53] to is remembered, and that the
[1:01:54] love that they shared with him
[1:01:57] continues to matter today and
[1:01:59] always. Thank you chair.
[1:02:01] Thank you Councilmember Fain
[1:02:03] Councilmember Lewis.
[1:02:04] Thank you chair I would like
[1:02:09] to, um, um, amend or not amend,
[1:02:12] but add on to or piggyback on
[1:02:14] the comments from Council
[1:02:17] member Fain. I want to first
[1:02:20] express my condolences to the
[1:02:23] Bennett Myers family. Not only
[1:02:25] have the family members been
[1:02:27] longtime district to residents,
[1:02:29] but one of two Sean
[1:02:29] s family
[1:02:30] members was my son
[1:02:31] s
[1:02:34] kindergarten teacher. The loss
[1:02:37] of Tyshawn, in addition to
[1:02:39] being a loss to his family, it
[1:02:42] was a blow to our community.
[1:02:43] The bright light of a light,
[1:02:46] that of a life that is engaged,
[1:02:48] involved in community is a
[1:02:50] blessing to all. Too many of
[1:02:52] our bright lights have been
[1:02:55] extinguished by gun violence.
[1:02:57] The passage of time has
[1:03:00] amplified the need for us to be
[1:03:02] vigilant with regard to gun
[1:03:07] violence prevention. One of my
[1:03:10] friends, Annie Lee, the former
[1:03:13] director of of Team Child, used
[1:03:15] to say at every meeting that I
[1:03:19] attended with her, what
[1:03:21] opportunities have we given for
[1:03:24] children to succeed? What are
[1:03:26] we giving to them in terms of a
[1:03:31] legacy and how do we pay the
[1:03:33] debt to future generations of
[1:03:35] doing more to stop these gun
[1:03:37] violence incidents? Thank you
[1:03:40] very much.
[1:03:42] Thank you. Councilmember Lewis
[1:03:44] and Councilmember Fain. Uh,
[1:03:46] seeing no further business,
[1:03:47] this meeting of the King County
[1:03:49] Council is adjourned in memory
[1:03:52] of DeShawn r Bennett Myers.